Healthy Limerick
Once again, it’s Limerick-Off time. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
So I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A woman was on a campaign…
Here’s mine:
Healthy Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A woman was on a campaign
Which was driving her fam’ly insane.
Yes, her new “smart health” diet
Kept causing a riot:
Each dinner she served featured brain.
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
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Tags: Diet Humor, Family & Relatives Humor, Food Humor, Food Verse, Health Limerick, Obsession Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Writing Prompts
A woman was on a campaign
so she boarded the back of a train
She waved to the crowd
and spoke very loud
but she lost by ten points to McCain.
A woman was on a campaign
to drive her friends insane
she made up these rhymes
and posted them at times
And her name was Mad Begun Kane!
A woman was on a campaign.
She bought a case of champagne.
She cajoled lots of men
to make love and then
she poured it all down the drain
A woman was on a campaign
To re-reform Egypt again
“A vast military
Takeover? Not scary.
Prefer a theocratic vein!”
Love the humour here – eating brains, egh!
Here from Poetry Potluck.
Jessica Japes
A woman was on a campaign
From fast food she would now abstain.
Eating salads all day
From her diet she strayed
Cooked a recipe from Adele’s book of fried brains.
A woman was on a campaign
To ice skate on Lake Pontchartrain
She said, “here’s mah plannuh
“to make Looziana
“a lot more like Alsace-Lorraine!”
A woman was on a campaign
to wash Valentine’s down the drain,
dispel hearts that crush
and quell Cupid’s mush;
then love locked her plans in a chain.
A woman was on a campaign
to ride on Michelle’s Healthy Train
and help shape-up this Nation
but when the train left the station
she was parked in a fast-food McChain
welcome to Jingle Poetry.
smart portrayal of your subject..
have fun reading a dozen others near yours…
A++
A woman was on a campaign
Sarah Palin was her name.
Be it on Face Book or Twitter
The Internet did she litter,
With thoughts both stupid and insane.
A woman was on a campaign
civic passion she did feign
all she wanted was free eats
and all the sweet gooey treats
that politicos eat sans restrain
A woman was on a campaign
To find one good man she could name.
Some were just dismal.
The rest were abysmal.
In the end she went with Elaine.
A woman was on a campaign
To restrict all her carbs to whole grain.
Fine for her that may be
That much roughage for me
would pass through like a hell bound train.
A woman was on a campaign
To make fair inheritance gains
Uber wealthy elitists
Swore “You’ll not defeat us!”
No spoils from the Bush gravy train.
A woman was on a campaign
To improve the sanity of her brain.
She stopped in at the local shrink
To find her cerebral kink.
The problem was her ex-husband Wayne!
Wow, what a delightful selection of limericks! Thanks, everyone, and please keep them coming!
Dear Kane
Brilliant.. and beautiful. I liked the limerick so much.. Thanks for sharing…
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
Madeline, I don’t write limericks,
but certainly do appreciate folks
who do.
I love it!
no i am not going to do this but i love your posting really.. here’s my potluck to break your limerick haha. Happily Tied
Thanks for your kind words Shashi, pamela, and fiveloaf!
A woman was on a campaign
That her faithful, but bumbling swain,
While whisp’ring his ardor,
Would make matters hotter
With amorous legerdemain.
That’s one from the zombie dinner table: “Brains… braaaaaains!”
Very clever, Dr. Goose!
a woman was on a campaign
when it started to hail and to rain
so she looked up at the sky
and kissed it good-bye
heading to the bar until it did end….
bkm
ha nice – some diets indeed eat brains instead of kilos…
actually brains are not bad…i have eaten them for years…
Excellent, perversely funny.
Thanks very much, Steve! And thanks everyone for your comments and limericks, and please keep them coming.
A woman was on a campaign
To house train her husband’s great dane
But as hard as she tried
Her plan was denied
His bladder he could not contain*
*That would be the dog’s bladder, not her husband’s!
A woman was on a campaign
For the right to stand naked in’t rain
But her buttocks were huge
And stopped the deluge
Not to mention they made the neighbours complain!!
(It scans better if it’s said in a Yorkshire or a Lancashire accent!)
Fun limericks, Pam and Versebender!
I’d lose weight on that diet! Maybe I should try it:)
A woman was on a campaign
to ape old Quixote, in Spain
She tilted for hours at tall growing flowers
then gave up in pollen-drenched pain
Fun one, Altonian! Welcome!